November 7, 2008, Friday

The whiz of bullets overhead had barely died down when the boys of Bunia went to the movies. Dozens of little boys, teenage boys and bored young men packed into a dark sweaty room, sat on its window ledges and stood in its narrow doorway, all to...

Anyone who has already succumbed to computer-borne paranoia in this year of Y2K foreboding had better brace for another jolt to the ganglia in the form of ''Universal Soldier: The Return.'' This is the hyperkinetic action movie that posits the...

August 21, 1999, Saturday

It may be a first: a $35 million movie that goes straight to video without a theater run. Movies on that route usually don't cost a fortieth of that price. They also usually don't involve a name star and a big-time producer. But this is a peculiar...